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Question Banks
This guide provides a list of vetted exam question bank resources for various topics and programs written by clinical experts. These question banks can either be used to directly implement into your own exams or can serve as a foundation for modifying and writing your own questions. To access the review questions in all of these databases, you will need to create an account.
- Exam Master This link opens in a new window
Learn about ExamMaster. Written by clinical experts, the bank of questions available include review tests for Anatomy, Biochemistry, Cytology and Histology, Internal and Clinical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, Pathology, Physiology, and Psychiatry as well as questions that would appear on COMLEX, USMLE, and PANCE exams.
- BoardVitals This link opens in a new window
Learn about BoardVitals. Board Vitals provides access to a database of numerous exam questions and NBME shelf exams including questions on Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Neurology, OBGYN, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Surgery. Board Vitals also provides access to questions that would appear on the APMLE and PANCE exams.
NOTE: New users will need to create a BoardVitals account using your @dmu.edu email address. - Case Files Collection This link opens in a new windowExtensive collection of carefully crafted cases designed to simulate the clinical approach and decision-making
- Board Review Series (BRS) This link opens in a new windowCovers all the core basic sciences and are designed to test for basic knowledge for clinical situations and are great for integrating into course exams.
- Access CollectionsOver 1,000 cases developed using real-world scenarios as well as over 1,000 review questions covering all core areas of study. The library subscribes to several Access products including Access Medicine, Access Surgery, Access Physiotherapy, Access Emergency Medicine, Access Neurology, Access ObGyn, Access Pediatrics, and Access Pharmacy.
- AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
Learn about mobile access.| Access to more than 75 medical titles, algorithms, diagnostic tools, clinical calculators, thousands of images, videos, and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, and drug information.
- AccessOBGYN This link opens in a new window
AccessObGyn can help students excel in their clerkship; assist residents in strengthening their skills with instant access to sonography videos and cases, a growing list of Williams animations, and our expanding library of landmark obstetrics and gynecology references from McGraw-Hill Medical that will establish a solid base for learning; and allow practicing obstetricians and gynecologists to reinforce their medical knowledge for recertification.
- AccessPediatrics This link opens in a new window
AccessPediatrics can help medical students to excel in their clerkship through use of use videos, cases, and Q&A; assist residents with leading pediatric textbooks and vignette style exam prep that will establish an important foundation for future practice, and allow practicing pediatricians to quickly search for relevant clinical information.
- AccessPharmacy This link opens in a new window
AccessPharmacy gives pharmacy students instant access to videos, games, Q&A, and leading pharmacy textbooks that will establish an important foundation for learning, and allows practicing pharmacists to get information instantly about drugs, herbs and supplements, and consult features and editorials concerning the vast array of current pharmacy publications.
- AccessPhysiotherapy This link opens in a new window
AccessPhysiotherapy is a comprehensive online education resource featuring continually updated content, multimedia, and review questions, including physical therapy textbooks, procedure and exercise videos, image galleries, self-assessment tools, and a unique cadaver dissection tool optimized for viewing on any device.
- AccessSurgery This link opens in a new window
Learn about mobile access - Access to over 20 textbooks, images, procedural videos, algorithms, differential diagnosis, calculators, residency competencies, and clerkship targeted information for 3rd and 4th-year medical students.
Assessment and Question Writing
- Write Better Multiple-Choice Questions to Assess Learning byCall Number: LB3060.32 .M85 S53 2021ISBN: 9798453383993Publication Date: 2021-08-30If you're an instructor or course developer--or simply train others--you need Write Better Multiple-Choice Questions. The information in this book will help you appropriately assess participant success and course quality. Research points to the multitude of course and competency assessments that are poorly written, measure the wrong things, and are difficult to understand. Any of these problems can result in frustrated and angry participants, useless assessment information, and possibly even legal battles. We must avoid these problems. We know that well-written multiple-choice questions can efficiently measure a wide range of important learning outcomes, not just recall of course content (contrary to inaccurate popular opinion). And well-written, higher-level multiple-choice assessments can be an effective proxy for higher levels of measurement. Write Better Multiple-Choice Questions is a "how-to" guide for creating well-written multiple-choice questions for people who deliver or develop training and instruction. The explanations, examples, and exercises work together to build practical knowledge and skill in writing good, valuable, and relevant multiple-choice questions. It provides insights from practice and summaries of each chapter.
Some of the most important issues discussed in this book include: Gaining the benefits of multiple-choice questions while overcoming the challenges. Writing performance-based learning objectives that tell us what is important to assess. Writing multiple-choice questions that adequately assess the learning objectives. Assessing real-life and job-task thinking processes in our multiple-choice questions. Building critical higher-level multiple-choice questions. Crafting valuable and relevant stems, answer choices, and distractors. Writing distractors that distinguish between those who know and those who don't. Writing feedback that moves participants forward. Reviewing assessments adequately before using them. Assessing the quality of assessments.
Faculty Only Publisher Resources
DMU Library coordinates faculty-only access to ancillary content from McGraw-Hill and LWW online textbooks.
Other publishers such as Elsevier offer free online faculty access to exam question banks that can be integrated into course/learning management systems (D2L among them) for required textbooks used in the instructor’s course.
Please contact the library with questions related to this access.
- MedOne Questions and AnswersDMU’s Library subscription to Thieme MedOne also includes access to curriculum-based questions and case scenarios where assessments can be created